Issue - meetings

To note the work programme for 2019/20. 

The Committee received a draft copy of the work programme for 2019/20. 

NOTED

1.            Jeremy Chambers advised that he wanted to add two items to the work programme for the October meeting:  a detailed training programme and a briefing on a recent report from the Committee in Standards in Public Life on local council standard’s regimes. 

2.            The new proposals from the Committee in Standards in Public Life report included assuming that a councillor was acting in his official capacity unless he could prove otherwise and bringing in a sanction, which had existed under the pre 2012 Standard’s regime, that a councillor could be suspended for 6 months for breaches of the code of conduct. 

3.            Reserve members would be invited to any training. 

4.            A social media training session had been held for all councillors on the preceding Monday.  This had been poorly attended and it was felt had not included enough information on how members should conduct themselves on social media. 

5.            It was suggested that a short video on social media conduct should be produced which could be included on the Members Portal.  Jayne Middleton-Albooye and Jeremy Chambers also agreed to provide a session for members of each group at future group meetings.